Still Chasing Monsters Away

Apparently, when I was a little kid going to bed at night, one of my parents—usually my mom—had to come into my room with me, inspect beneath the covers, and smack the bedcovers along the bottom of my bed to kill the lobsters I was convinced were hiding in my bed...

Whispers in the Distance

Do you recall your teenage years? I don’t know about you, but mine definitely had moments that can be described as tumultuous. The journey of the teenage years is fraught with such moments, those times when we need to determine where we begin apart from our parents....

Are We There Yet?

When I was a kid, summer vacations were definitely a thing, and by vacation, I’m talking about the family vacation where you loaded up the family car and took to the road heading for somewhere new and that might include fun kid-focused activities, like maybe an...